1. The Banks are back in the lending on business game!
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... on the business. We have another two underway where finance is approved where an offshore party has $3m of equity to put into an $8m transaction and another where a purchaser has $1m to put into ...

2. DOA: Is your business worth more dead than alive?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... a local buyer, or a party who would want to relocate to their community. Then the business would have to improve by about 150 per cent to achieve that result. The average house price in their community ...

3. Import Distribution Business (Sold)
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

...  product lines There will be those that believe that there is very little ‘barrier to entry’ for another party to enter this market. The counter to this though is that there is real ...

4. Telecommunications Technology and Service Provider (Sold)
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

... this e-mail to any interested party and should you wish not to receive any further emails from Switch Business please reply to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. EBITDA: $1.644m 2008 ...

5. September 2010
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... staff, no stock, no debtors and no requirement for premises and we could have sold it 3 times over. There was one party who called me every two days through the Due Diligence period to see how the ...

6. When a deal can go wrong: A very willing buyer, a motivated seller but can their lawyers speak to each other?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

Hello again, An interesting question and one that probably every business broker in the world can relate to! We are in a recession and as such it is certainly more difficult for any party to complete ...

7. Vendor Finance
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

...  The exiting owner is effectively lending money to a party that they have only just met. The more complex earn out agreements can become very difficult to manage and to measure because ...

8. Think like a buyer when selling your business
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... in question and that is why there is generally a broker (or a another third party) involved to add the opinion needed to position a business successfully for sale. Managing the people and ...

9. Baby Boomers Re-entering the business owners ranks?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... a business opportunity. This can take a number of different courses relating to shareholding but in most cases the younger party runs the day to day business and the older party offers governance and ...

10. Are you buying the broker or the brokerage?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

...  on what business owners should expect from a broker/brokerage and I think that this is a good place to start. It is very difficult for a referee to, with a clear conscious, refer any party to a company. ...

11. What have they got to hide?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... process and this allows an interested party the opportunity to complete an NDA on-line much like a software registration. No profit/surplus shown but note that the business is reasonably priced What ...

12. Communication
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... able to keep the emotion out of the transaction, none of the parties took a hard and fast position on any terms or conditions at any stage, neither party hid behind their professional advisors so a transaction ...

13. Is business ownership for me?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

...  Things to think about before you take the leap: Get the buy-in of your family first. Spouses often look at these situations differently than the party in question. We all know people who already ...

14. Redundancy = Franchise, Start-up or Existing business?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... over the others? The answer would be no, not without knowing what you as a potential purchaser would bring to the party. The different types of businesses appeal to the skill-sets and mind-sets of different ...

15. Franchise Buyer Registration
(Franchises/Franchise Buyer Registration)

... called “SBL”) And the BUSINESS OWNER(S) (Herein called “Business Owners”) who have given SBL an authority to sell their business And INTERESTED PARTY as listed above. In consideration of Business ...

16. The results are out: Your thoughts on Business Brokers
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... was anything any other party had done any survey in either the Real Estate or the Business broking end of the market. Realestate.co.nz has an annual survey where they randomly send out 100 email enquiries ...

17. Where is our Industry going?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... that frustration to the party. How do we standardise our industry when we are under the control of the REINZ? Now this is not bag the REINZ time, (I can leave that to the government and the media) ...

18. Buyer Registration
(Buying a Business/Buyer Registration)

... the BUSINESS OWNER(S) (Herein called “Business Owners”) who have given SBL an authority to sell their business And INTERESTED PARTY as listed above. In consideration of Business Owners, either directly ...

19. Growth by Acquisition!
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... a third party handling all the negotiations and those negotiations are for your benefit. This will result in you buying on your terms and conditions. Growth by acquisition in a recession makes sense. ...